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Team builds instant-retail automated packing robot with open-source LeRobot SO-101 arm, wins first place at hackathon

A team built a proof-of-concept prototype for automated packing in a dark store using the open-source LeRobot SO-101 (SO-ARM101) 3D-printed robotic arm, winning first place at a hackathon. Targeting the high labor costs and slow picking of instant retail, the project used the Hugging Face-supported LeRobot ecosystem to complete teleoperation, data collection, and imitation learning within the hackathon timeframe, enabling the arm to reliably perform pick-and-place tasks, and released a 1-minute demo video.

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